Mayor Willie Herenton will host a prayer breakfast January 1st at the Memphis Cook Convention Center at which he will give his State of the City speech. Mayoral aide Gale Jones Carson said Herenton will discuss a "major project" in the speech, but she could not be more specific. The event will be carried live on the web at www.memphistn.gov. starting at 9 a.m. Herenton will be starting his 16th consecutive year as mayor. His fourth term ends in 2007. He has said he will run for a fifth term.
Governor sees GOP lagging in electoral prowess nationwide; cites tight 2012 race in North Carolina as warning to overconfident Tennessee Republicans; Fincher proclaims a GOP version of the social gospel.
U.S. Senator-elect Bob Corker hit Memphis late Thursday afternoon as the last stop on a Thank You tour of Tennessee and underscored the fact that he intends to represent all the people of Tennessee. With a wry grin, Corker observed that he would be the only one in my class of newly elected Republican senators and said, Im pretty sure Ill be [its] president.
Governor sees GOP lagging in electoral prowess nationwide; cites tight 2012 race in North Carolina as warning to overconfident Tennessee Republicans; Fincher proclaims a GOP version of the social gospel.